Bluff RockFremantle Press, 01.01.2005 - 268 Seiten "The past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our longing for certainty cannot be satisfied ... we tell stories about where we come from and who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically ... This is an original and courageous book. Schlunke, who grew up in the New England area, takes this one story — the massacre(s) of Aborigines at Bluff Rock, in New England during the 1840s — and looks at the many ways it is organised as a memory of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. Schlunke breaks new ground as she probes the 'hidden histories' of Indigenous-settler encounters and addresses herself urgently to the problems of 'history' in Australia." |
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Seite 12
... things would come out of it. Scary things. There was a breathing in your room; terrifyingly close. 'Out there' transformed your own breath into an alien — gonna getcha gonna getcha. You knew you weren't to call out to your parents and ...
... things would come out of it. Scary things. There was a breathing in your room; terrifyingly close. 'Out there' transformed your own breath into an alien — gonna getcha gonna getcha. You knew you weren't to call out to your parents and ...
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... thing. Sunday school taught these lessons well. Displays of moral courage were particularly fine if they included some aspect of forgiveness and abnegation. We had to turn the cheek again and again. We could be giving, but we never ...
... thing. Sunday school taught these lessons well. Displays of moral courage were particularly fine if they included some aspect of forgiveness and abnegation. We had to turn the cheek again and again. We could be giving, but we never ...
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... no one to grip. It is as if over those trees and scrub a giant hand has forced a massive sheet of metal, cutting through each tiny root, each small plant, to leave this unhealable thing. When there is a rent. 20 BLUFF ROCK.
... no one to grip. It is as if over those trees and scrub a giant hand has forced a massive sheet of metal, cutting through each tiny root, each small plant, to leave this unhealable thing. When there is a rent. 20 BLUFF ROCK.
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Katrina Schlunke. to leave this unhealable thing. When there is a rent in the landscape and when that rent doesn't seem to breathe or move, and we can look at it for as long as we like — and as we like, some of us, with our particular ...
Katrina Schlunke. to leave this unhealable thing. When there is a rent in the landscape and when that rent doesn't seem to breathe or move, and we can look at it for as long as we like — and as we like, some of us, with our particular ...
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... things? This intense local history lets us touch and feel the shifts in how the past is told. Radically different ideas about the past and its uses meet in 'The Bluff Rock Massacre'. First, it lets us confront our desire for a certain ...
... things? This intense local history lets us touch and feel the shifts in how the past is told. Radically different ideas about the past and its uses meet in 'The Bluff Rock Massacre'. First, it lets us confront our desire for a certain ...
Inhalt
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WHAT KEATING HEARD | 64 |
LOCAL KNOWHOW | 104 |
MR IRBY ACCOUNTS | 141 |
HORSES AND DEATH | 196 |
THE DISAPPEARING
WINDEYER | 221 |
MAKING ENDS MEET | 248 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 257 |
NOTES | 259 |
REFERENCES AND WORKS CITED | 267 |
INDEX | 270 |
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